Shipbuilding Speed-up For Britain Seen
President Roosevelt may propose a rapid US shipbuilding program to bolster Britain against Nazi air and submarine attacks. The plan would be extensive, use reciprocating engines to avoid bottlenecks, and align with aid efforts to Britain. Since 1938, 179 new trans-ocean ships started, 54 completed.
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Roosevelt
United States
Britain
Nation
Congress
Maritime Commission
Court hearing claims abuse of discretion over Grand River dam block
Oklahoma officials asked the U S Supreme Court to overturn a Tulsa federal court order delaying completion of the Grand River hydroelectric project. Attorney General Mac Q Williamson argued Gov Leon C Phillips acted within his rights when calling out the militia and filing a state suit to protect state property and pay disputed road and bridge costs. The brief seeks review ahead of hearings set for January 13.
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Oklahoma
Supreme Court Today
Tulsa
Grand River
Mac Q. Williamson
Leon C. Phillips
PWA
Pwa-Financed Grand River
Illiamson
United States
Greeks Take Lin Village Near Albanian Frontier
BITOLJ Yugoslavia December 26 Greek patrols entered the village of Lin on Lake Ochride near Pogradetz on the road to Elbasani. Military informants said Lin’s capture would allow Greek columns to move northwest toward Elbasani, about 30 miles from Tirana.
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Yugoslavia
Reek
Lin
Ochrida
Pogradetz
Elbasani
Tirana
Christmas Truce Echoes of Hope Amid War
War writer Dewitt Mackenzie recalls a tacit Christmas truce and a Passchendaele memory. He contrasts cynicism with faith in humanity, sharing a story of a wounded British soldier leading a wounded German boy prisoner at an emergency dressing station.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Associated Press
Passchendaele
C. E. Montague
Tommy
Bombing of Corfu Kills Civilians as Gifts Drop
Greek high command reports a Christmas bombing of Corfu by Italian warplanes killed 15 people and wounded about 30, mainly women and children. It notes Corfu has been bombed 23 times since the war began and remains an open town. Earlier, British fliers dropped gift packages to civilians on the island.
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Corfu
High Command
Royal Air Force
Ionian
Oklahoma Highway Board Kinds on Airline Toll Road
Oklahoma highway officials expressed willingness to cooperate on a privately financed toll road from Oklahoma City to Tulsa but questioned its advisability. Moon doubted toll road profitability. Disney proposed a six lane $20 million project, while a four lane $10 million version might suffice. Board members stressed financing as the main issue and signaled conditional cooperation.
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Tulsa
van T. Moon
Harrisburg- Pittsburg
Wesley E. Disney
D-Okla
Oklahoma
Moon
A. W. Kavenaugh
Highway Purchasing Department
Disney
Sandy Singleton
The
Highway Commission
Oklahoma Draft Calls 130 Men for January Induction
Oklahoma City reports 130 draftees ordered to report January 2 for induction as the January call aims for 2,907 men. Counties listed include Cimarron Texas Beaver Harper Woods Woodward Ellis Dewey and Alfalfa with quotas ranging from six to twenty one. Induction will run five days a week with dates through February 5 and a four day replacement examination period in early February.
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Oklahoma
Northwest
Cimarron
Texas
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Harper
Woods
Woodward
Ellis
Dewey
Alfalfa
Don Welch
Fred Shaw
Shaw
Kemp youths in fatal two car crash on bridge near Kemp
One Kemp youth was killed another seriously injured and two girls hurt in a three way automobile crash on a bridge near Jiba Kaufman county last night. Dead was R. P. Hammock son of Mr and Mrs Fred Hammock of Kemp. Lynn Blithe of Kemp was in a hospital here with grave head injuries.
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Kemp
Jiba
Kaufman County
R. P. Hammock
Fred Hammock
Lynn Blithe
Oklahoma Student Rescues Detroit Brothers From Ice
John Andrews a 24 year old University of Oklahoma student vacationing in Detroit leapt into the Detroit river near Belle Isle and rescued three brothers Nick Pleasa 12 Joe 14 and Steven 13 who fell through thin ice. Louis Hatty aided by taking each child from the rescuer to shore where they received hot baths and were reported none the worse for the ordeal.
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Detroit
University of Oklahoma
John Andrews
Tulsa
Belle Isle
Louis Hatty
Nick Pleasha
Andrews
Joe
Steven
Nick
Hatty
Phillips Urges State Regulate Tax Assessors
Governor Phillips called for a constitutional amendment to place state supervision over local property assessments when counties seek state aid for schools. He urged fixing tax rolls as part of an education report, while noting some elements he may not support.
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Oklahoma City
State Board of Equalization
Joint Committee On Education
Deail
Oklahoma Education Association
State Tax Commission
Holiday Toll From Christmas Deaths Tops Three Hundred
A Christmas observance toll across the nation shows at least 391 violent deaths. Traffic accidents caused 273 fatalities on Christmas Eve and Day, with 109 more violent deaths from various causes. New York led states with 41 deaths, followed by California 30 and Ohio 29.
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Virginia
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Wisconsin
Wyoming
Mystery of Hitler's Romanian Troop Move Deepens
Reporting from wartime fronts details a massive German buildup into Romania and Hungary, with 1,160 troop trains planned through January as Britain braces for possible invasion. Nazi leaders tour invasion ports near England while Red Army forces mass on the Prut frontier and Greek and Yugoslav positions shift along the Adriatic.
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Hitler
Romania
Hungary
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Russia
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Slovakia
Prut
Rumania
Lake Ochrida
Lin
Pogradetz
Elbasani
Tirana
Albania
Adriatic
Valona
Bardia
Libya
Thames
Bucharest
Weather Brings Truce With Rain Delays Christmas Observance
Printout notes rain delaying Christmas services as moisture neared a inch in parts of Oklahoma and surrounding states. Temperatures ranged from the upper 30s to mid 50s with South winds shifting and widespread precipitation reported from Amarillo to Lake Charles.
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Guymon
Shawnee
Amarillo
Texas
Sayre
Clinton
Oklahoma
Forgan
Enid
Kingfisher
Wahlgren
Arkansas
Missouri
Kansas
Lake Charles
Saltillo
Mangum
Yesterdy
Chickasha
Duncan
Rain and Snow Slow Battle in Albania Front
Associated Press reports rain and snow slowed fighting on the Albanian front but Greek forces still advanced along the Adriatic coast north of Chimara without contact with the main Italian line. In Tepeleni and Klisura the action continued in severe cold with waist-deep snow. A captured Italian lieutenant colonel said Fascist troops are suffering from weather and supply shortages, with battalions reduced from 700 to about 200 men.
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Athens
Adriatic
Chimara
Tepeleni
Klisura
All in All Ada Had Fine Christmas Celebration
Ada celebrated Christmas in hundreds of homes and in many dingy shacks thanks to churches schools welfare groups and private families. Needy families ten days earlier listed by the News received gifts of food toys and clothing. Ada Junior High students sent baskets to ten families and churches and welfare agencies provided baskets. Merchants reported good business as the season ended.
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Ada
We Was Used To Cawnmeal First Biscuits Relished
New York December 26 AP five hill billy naval recruits explained they enjoyed 56 breakfast biscuits at one setting aboard the U S liner Washington bringing 1342 evacuees from the Orient. The group of 2000 navy recruits were picked up at Hampton Roads Virginia en route to the Far East and debarked at San Pedro California pleased to have white bread.
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U. S
Washington
Orient
Hampton Roads
Far East
San Pedro
Calif
Pontotoc Roads Report No Auto Mishaps Over Holiday
City officers and state highway patrolmen reported a safe holiday with no automobile mishaps on both Tuesday and Wednesday, indicating road conditions were calm.
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Pontotoc
Christmas Eve raid yields few bottles and a fine
Police Chief Raymond Rains reports a targeted raid on Cowboy Hice on Christmas Eve produced only five or six half pint whiskey bottles. Hice was released after paying a $20 fine and costs.
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Cowboy Hice
Raymond Rains
Hice
U S Credited With Victory in Africa By Tempo
Rome reported Tempo the Italian news weekly credited the United States for Britain’s north Africa victory. It described a war dividing Europe and the Anglo-Saxon world with America supplying tanks planes ammunition and artillery.
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North Africa
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North America
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Il Popolo d'Italia
Wington Churchill
Italy
Ssng
Stefani
Churchill
Brenner Pass
Government Is In Music Fight
Attorney General Jackson ordered criminal proceedings under the Sherman act against ASCAP and major broadcasters. Thurman Arnold to file charges in Milwaukee after New Year against ASCAP, NBC, and CBS as the contract battle over music rights escalates. Broadcasters claim ASCAP demands would cost about 9 million dollars yearly, more than doubling prior payments. Arnold says voluntary talks failed and the public is neutral in a private war between aggressors.
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Jackson
Justice Department
Thurman Arnold
Federal District Court
Milwaukee
Wisconsin
American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
Broadcast Music, Inc
National Broadcasting Company
Columbia Broadcasting System
ASCAP
Arnold
Limiting of Gifts May Go Farther
Senatorial finance probe seeks tighter caps on individual political gifts and party spending. Chairman Gillette notes Hatch act limits of 5 000 per donor and 3 million per year but cites over 20 million spent in the last presidential election due to multiple political groups.
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Senate Campaign Expenditures Committee
Gillette
Iowa
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